A poll to gauge the popularity of golf

[tarannau]

I'm just watching it again. It's almost as if Meades is talking to Kabbes directly.

 

[kabbes]

I'm sure it is, at least in your dementedly one-tracked brain.

 

[tarannau]

So I take it you don't agree on Meades view on the suburbs and the deluded nature of Golfers then?

Nor the bit about golfers not 'needing the brain of a tactician, or the body of an athlete'?

 

[kabbes]

What has my views on a set-piece monologue from a comedian got to do with anything at all?

Incidentally, do you have the good grace to concede that golf may have some health benefits, now that I have gone to the bother of showing that a round consumes half your daily calories? Or are you just sweeping that under the carpet now that you have been proved to be wrong?

 

[El Jefe]

Meades is a comedian now?

 

[kabbes]

Well I don't know who the fuck he is.

 

[El Jefe]

Oh, and monologue? Set piece?

You didn't watch it, you big trickster

 

[El Jefe]

Well I don't know who the fuck he is.

I thought you knew EVERYTHING

You certainly act like you do

 

[tarannau]

What has my views on a set-piece monologue from a comedian got to do with anything at all?

Incidentally, do you have the good grace to concede that golf may have some health benefits, now that I have gone to the bother of showing that a round consumes half your daily calories? Or are you just sweeping that under the carpet now that you have been proved to be wrong?

Watch the Meades videos you pompous goon.

 

[mattie]

So I take it you don't agree on Meades view on the suburbs and the deluded nature of Golfers then?

Nor the bit about golfers not 'needing the brain of a tactician, or the body of an athlete'?

Can't get youtube to work here, suspect it's the feckin' kiddies back after summer holidays hogging all the bandwidth.

Not needing the brain of a tactician would be patent bollocks btw, but as with most humour I don't think it's meant for those familiar with the subject.

 

[kabbes]

I can't watch any video here at work.

 

[tarannau]

It'll save for tonight. You'll love it.

 

[editor]

Aha. I think it's here on youtube.

"The game that wants to be a sport..."

...Golf has created a landscape "adored by animals, light entertainers and mushrooms."

 

[Pingu]

ruins a good walk imo

 

[tarannau]

ve the good grace to concede that golf may have some health benefits, now that I have gone to the bother of showing that a round consumes half your daily calories? Or are you just sweeping that under the carpet now that you have been proved to be wrong?

I never did get to this by the way. After your 'well I ache after a round, so it must be doing good' bollocks, you come up with this peach.

I tell you what, if I stick you in a sauna for a few hours, preferably well wrapped up in matching pringle sweater and tartan hat ensemble, will you use up as many calories? And will that make you fitter or not? And would time typically spent in the clubhouse bar afterwards negate the gains of either 'activity?"

I could be more serious perhaps, but with reasoning and pompousness like that you really don't deserve it.

 

[tarannau]

"The game that wants to be a sport..."

...Golf has created a landscape "adored by animals, light entertainers and mushrooms."

I watched that again, all 3 parts and 30 glorious minutes of it, after posting that link. It's as good as I remembered, if not better. And I wasn't entirely joking when I mentioned that it seemed to be talking to Kabbes.

It should be essential viewing, on loop play, at every golfing clubhouse across the country.

 

[kabbes]

Why should it? What is your objection to people doing something they enjoy? Why must all activities have the tarannau seal of approval before people are allowed to just enjoy it in peace? I can't believe that YOU have the temerity to call ME pompous!

 

[tarannau]

Ooh, hark at him.

It's a bulletin board; the people have proclaimed Golf shite and I laugh at your bogus claims of golf based fitness. Deal with it.

And watch that Meades programme too. It's a fantastic train of thought.

 

[Santino]

This thread really makes me want to play golf.

 

[souljacker]

You gotta love Cmdr & Mrs Snelling

They couldn't be further from the reality of my golfing experiences. It's not all about bad sweaters, old fogies and arrogant bankers. If everyone who played golf were like them, then yes, I'd stay well away. I play with mates, some weed and a few beers afterwards. It's a great day out, IMO.

 

[souljacker]

This thread really makes me want to play golf.

Join the U75 golf society!

 

[geminisnake]

I nearly voted all aspects are shite but decided not to coz some golf courses do provide habitats for wildlife in areas that would otherwise be building hell.

They also look really bizarre and amusing from an aeroplane.

 

[aylee]

Far too much of it on the TV. The skill of the players is impressive for about five seconds, but I've never felt the urge to try to play it as it requires a modicum of co-ordination, which I don't have.

 

[bi0boy]

It's fun playing it on the computer, entirely tedious playing it in reality, and even more tedious watching it on TV.

Listening to it live on Radio 5 is worse than most things that could possibly happen TBF.

 

[Riklet]

Like watching paint dry, but with silly hats and over-reported adultery...